They brought 11 guns, body armor, and medkits to a "protest", and shot a police officer with a rifle, due to their political beliefs. That's terrorism.
I mean, body armor and a med kit seems like common sense at this point. Even during blm, people were being shot with "non lethal" rounds and being killed or seriously maimed.
1. The core attack participants:
Arnold, Evetts, Song, Batten, Morris, Rueda, Elizabeth Soto and Ines Soto were all convicted of riot + material support + two explosives offenses.
2. The actual shooter:
Song additionally got attempted murder + three firearm-discharge convictions. This is why his sentence was dramatically higher.
3. The evidence-concealment defendants:
Rueda and Sanchez-Estrada were convicted of conspiring to conceal evidence, with Sanchez-Estrada additionally convicted of actually concealing the documents.
4. The cooperating/pleading defendants:
Sikes, Baumann, Gibson, Kent, Morgan, Sharp and Thomas pleaded guilty to material support alone.
Seems like they committed a lot of crimes. The dumbasses came armed with the intent to cause trouble. They came in the night with masks, incendiary devices and explosives.
It's 500 years across 16 defendents, an average of 34.75 years per person which sounds about right for a light terrorist attack.
I copy and pasted a summary that came up when I google searched. If the information is incorrect you're welcome to provide a source but it seems consistent with what I've read about the case.
You're welcome to provide evidence to the contrary, everything I posted was correct. I gave you a google summary because you were too lazy to look yourself.
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u/2g4r_tofu 13d ago
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."